upstart writes:Carmack sees a 60% chance of achieving initial success in AGI by 2030:[Ed note: This interview is chopped way down to fit here. Lots of good stuff in the full interview. --hubie]
fliptop writes:More than 80 years ago, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov wrote Reason, a story about a solar energy collection station in deep space that delivered high-energy rays to receivers on Earth and Mars. Called space-based solar power (SSP), Asimov's idea didn't start to approach science fact in any meaningful sense until 1968...
On the 12 February 2014, SoylentNews published its first 'official' discussion wittily entitled "Welcome to SoylentNews!"There were 23 comments to that story but that belies the incredible effort made by a small team of enthusiasts who were determined to create and manage a site that lived up to their own expectations of how a site should behave. There are no advertisements and we are not beholden to any corporate group or business interest. All the support is still completely voluntary. We have also committed ourselves to reaching at least the 10 year birthday celebration too.In the first story, a certain NCommander made the following remark:
canopic jug writes:It's been hard to escape the recent tsunami of spam promoting various Large Language Model (LLM) chatbots as the Next Big Thing™. In a guest post over at Techrights, blogger and gadfly Ryan Farmer has posted an overview of some 30+ hours he has spent testing and exploring the LLM chatbot marketed as ChatGPT. While the official mode of interaction is highly subdued and biased in particular directions, he was able to circumvent those constraints by having the chatbot emulate alternate personalities free from some of those constraints, Bob, DAN, and others.
fliptop writes:Interpol secretary general Jurgen Stock says the global police agency is investigating how the organisation could police crime in the metaverse:
fliptop writes:In the latest lay off round hit to tech, Yahoo has announced they will be releasing around 1,600 workers, including half their Business unit, with 1,000 of the cuts coming by the end of the week:
canopic jug writes:The Atlantic Council has published a policy report entitled "Avoiding the success trap: Toward policy for open-source software as infrastructure". It addresses the idea of Open Source Software (OSS) as essential infrastructure. OSS differs from physical infrastructure yet supports critical functions, provides dependable services, offers subtle and often unseen service delivery, and functions through decentralized control.
US NIST Unveils Winning Encryption Algorithm for IoT Data Protectionfliptop writes:The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced that ASCON is the winning bid for the "lightweight cryptography" program to find the best algorithm to protect small IoT (Internet of Things) devices with limited hardware resources:
upstart writes:Just three minutes of exposure to deep red light once a week, when delivered in the morning, can significantly improve declining eyesight:
fliptop writes:OpenAI, the company behind the chatbot ChatGPT, has ramped up its hiring around the world, bringing on roughly 1,000 remote contractors over the past six months in regions like Latin America and Eastern Europe, according to people familiar with the matter: